Michael Shindler

Michael C. Shindler is the President of Four Corners Advisors, Inc., a hospitality transactions consultancy and advisory firm he established in June 2007. Prior to forming Four Corners Advisors, from May 2006 until June 2007, Mr. Shindler was Vice President - Development & Asset Management for Las Vegas Sands Corp. with responsibility, among other things, for negotiating third-party management contracts for Macau's Cotai Strip. Before joining Las Vegas Sands, he had rejoined Hyatt Hotels Corporation in November 2003 as Senior Vice President-Acquisitions and Development. In this role, he had responsibility for transactions on behalf of Hyatt International Corporation, as well as handling departmental administrative processes and other special projects. Previously, from 1986 to 1996, he worked for Hyatt Development Corporation in a variety of roles, beginning in October 1986 as Associate General Counsel and ending in October 1986 as Senior Vice President, where he headed the domestic Development group and was a member of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation Managing Committee. Immediately prior to rejoining Hyatt, Mr. Shindler was Vice President of Development for RockResorts International, LLC/Vail Resorts Lodging, and he previously held senior development positions with Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group and with a hospitality brokerage and consulting boutique and with a major real estate syndication firm. Mr. Shindler practiced law in Chicago from 1976 to 1984. He is a member of the Board of Directors of IFF, a not-for-profit established to provide real estate development services and funding for acquisition and rehabilitation of real estate facilities, including day care centers and charter schools, for use by organizations serving low- and moderate-income communities in five states throughout the Midwest, and is a member of the Board and President/Treasurer of the Foundation for Human Potential. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and he obtained an AB in Political Science from University of North Carolina.